Improvement in halters



T. PULLER & (7. W; WARREN.

. v Halter. No. 204,084. Patented May 21, 1878..

".PEYERS, PHOTO-UTNOGRAPMEH. WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

THOMAS FULLER AND GEORGE W. WARREN OF WELLSVILLE, NEW YORK.

IM PROVEMENT IN HALTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 204,084, dated May 21,1878 application filed February 1'2, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, THOMAS FULLER and GEORGE W. WARREN, of Wellsville,in the county of Allegany and State of New York, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Halters; and we do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, whichwill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, whichform. a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a sideelevation, showing the application of our improved halter, and Fig. 2 isa perspective View of the halter detached.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both thefigures.

Our invention relates to halters or headstalls for hitching horses andmules to the stanchion or manger and it consists in an improvedconstruction and arrangement of parts, substan-- tially as hereinaftermore fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing, A is the nose-strap, which may be adjusted to fittightly around the nose of the animal by a buckle, a. B is the headstallor strap, and B B are the cheek-pieces, which are secured to thenose-strap A at right angles by riveting, stitching, or in any othersuitable manner. Into the left cheek-piece is inserted a ring or eye, b,partly projecting from the edge of the strap below the buckle c, asshown. The opposite cheek-piece is united, by a ring, 0, cpposite to thering or eye I), to the headstall B, as shown in Fig. 2.

D is the hitch-strap, which is split at one end into two parts, at d, tothe end of each of which is secured a snap-hook, f f and E is a ring,having a right-angle or transverse loop, 9, which slides upon the under(lower) side of nose-strap A under the jaw.

The method of using. our improved halter will be readily understood byreference to Fig. 1 of the drawings, from which it will be seen that,after the halter has been placed in position upon the head by slippingthe headstall over the ears of the animal and adjusting the nose-strap,the hitch-strap D is passed through ring E, and its ends d d hooked ontorings 1) and e by means of the snaphooks f and f, respectively.

The split hitching-strap 1), being passed through the ring E, whichslides upon the nose-strap, will prevent chafing of the lower jaw of theanimal, with which it does not come in contact, as it would if passedthrough the nose-strap itself; and, further, this ring serves tocontract the two split branches of strap D, so as to insure a better fitof the halter upon the head of the animal.

It will also be observed that our improved halter is composed of onlyfive pieces of leather or webbingviz., the nose strap, two cheekpieces,the headstall or crown-piece, and the split hitching-strap. This haltermay be made of leather or web- .bing of any suitable kind, or of leatherand webbing combined. It consists of few parts, and can therefore bemanufactured at less cost than the halters now generally in use. It iseasily applied and adjusted upon the head of the animal, and in lesstime than it takes to adjust a halter of the ordinary description.

We are aware that it is not new to construct a self-adjustin g halter bythe use of a hitchings'trap, branched or otherwise, which slides throughthe nose-straps, or through one or' more rin gs suitably arranged forthe purpose; hence we donot claim this construction, broadly; but,

Having thus described our improvement, we claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States As an improvement in halters, thecombination of the nose-strap A, having the cheekpieces B B and slidingloop-ring g E, headstall B, and split detachable hitching-strap D,having snap-hooks ff for uniting it to the rings 1) e of thecheek-pieces B B, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown andspecified. I

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have heretoaffixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS FULLER. GEORGE WASHINGTON WARREN.

Witnesses: I HUGH J oNEs, ZOMAS H. J oNEs.

